So, in the spirit of friday fun where we’ve done puzzles, genome music and other fun stuff (so, ok, not always on Friday), I thought I’d show you an interesting site: Genome Quilts. The creator of these quilts created a one square pattern for each nucleotide and then quilts these squares in order of a [...]
We’ve been playing with puzzles here the last while… amino acid spelling, sudoku, word search (and well, real science puzzles too), so I thought I’d try a bit of a crossword puzzle. Funny, I like creating them, just don’t play them very much. Hopefully that won’t show up here too much and it’s fun (for [...]
So, Carl Zimmer asks the question (from his reader): What actually is the longest word (in any language) encoded by the reference human genome? If I had the time and computer power I’d have a look… Guesstimate – it’ll be somewhere in the 4-5 letter range, depending on letter frequency in the target language. Well, [...]
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